Summary
Yishu Xu is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building telemetry, CI/CD, and distributed database solutions at Microsoft, currently focused on Azure SQL. He combines deep systems expertise in C#, TypeScript, Java, Python and C++ with practical experience in telemetry pipelines, privacy-sensitive data handling, and performance tuning for large-scale Kusto deployments. Yishu has driven end-to-end projects from instrumentation through automated monitoring and incident mitigation, and has a track record of cost-saving telemetry optimizations and reliability improvements. His background includes mentoring graduate students in data management and hands-on data mining work for financial clients, reflecting both academic and applied strengths. Curious by nature, he favors mixing established design patterns with inventive approaches to solve hard engineering problems. Based in Bellevue, WA, he brings a pragmatic, data-informed mindset to complex infrastructure and privacy challenges.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS information systems, Master of Science - MS information systems at Northeastern University
Bachelor of Science - BS telecommunication engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS telecommunication engineering at Xiamen University